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H. M. EDWARDS. LIGHTING IMPLEMENT.

N0. 604,693. Patented May 24, 1898;

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HARRY M. EDIVARDS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW V YORK, ASSIGNOR TO IVILLIAM VOGEL &BROTHERS, OF SAME PLACE.

LIIGHTING IMPLIEM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,693, dated May 24,1898. Application filed August 24, 1897. serial No. 649,374. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY M. EDWARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Lighting Implements; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to that class of devices known as lightingimplements, in which two rods or tubes are employed connected to ahandle and one providedwith a key with which to turn on the gas and theother forming a receptacle for holding a taper to ignite the gas orlamp. These devices as heretofore constructed have been provided withspring jaws or points or similar devices to engage the end of the taperwith the thumb-piece,

all of which have been found objectionable, as the constant action ofpushing the taper out for lighting and drawing it within the tube toextinguish it soon frays out the end and causes it to become detachedfrom the thumb-piece, and consequently rendering it necessary to forcethe taper out of the tube, remove the frayed end, and reconnect thetaper with said thumb-piece.

The object of my invention is to overcome the difficulties heretoforeexperienced in this particular and to produce a device that when thetaper is once connected will be firmly held and which shall be strongand durable.

The invention consists in a novel construction of taper-holder forconnecting the taper with the thumb-piece, whereby the taper is firmlyconnected thereto and all liability of the taper becoming detached isavoided, allas hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an enlarged side elevation ofthe upper end of the implement, showing the rod or tube provided with akey for turning on the gas and the curved tube for containing the taperwith one form of my improved holder. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing amodification of the holder. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the holdershown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the holder shown in Fig.2.

The tubes A A may be of any usual or desired construction, one of whichhas affixed thereto the key-piece a, by which to turn on the gas, andthe other forming the taperholder. The tubes are connected together inany desired manner and are fixed to a suitable handle B, the tube forholding the taper being curved outward away from the keytube in theusual manner.

The device by which the taper is moved in and out for lighting andextinguishing consists of the thumb-piece 0, made in any de sired form,having the flattened portion 0 to slide in the groove D, and to thisflattened portion is connected the loop or perforated extension E, orsaid extension may be formed integral with the flattened portion, asshall be found most desirable. This extension, as above stated, consistseither of the loop or eye e, formed by bending the forward end backward,as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or may be formed by perforating theextension, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, or in any other preferredmanneigwhereby to form an eye or closed loop around or through which thetaper may be looped or passed and permit said taper to be bent back uponitself or forming a loop in said taper. When the taper is thus connectedand drawn within the tube, the taper will be engaged and firmly clampedby the wall of said tube in a manner that will be readily understood andappreciated.

Having now described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- In a lighting implement, a taperholdertube, in combination with a thumb-piece provided with an extension madein closed-loop or eye form, through which the taper is adapted to behooked substantially described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY M. EDW'ARDS.

lVitnesses:

O. O. PATTERSON, BENJ. F. SANBORN.

